Name: Strange answers to the psychopath test
Uploaded: 2012-08-15T15:18:05Z
Duration: 17 min 44 s
Description: Is there a definitive line that divides crazy from sane? With a hair-raising delivery, Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, illuminates the gray areas between the two. (With live-mixed sound by Julian Treasure and animation by Evan Grant.)

Is there a definitive line that divides crazy from sane? With a hair-raising delivery, Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, illuminates the gray areas between the two. (With live-mixed sound by Julian Treasure and animation by Evan Grant.)

Strange answers to the psychopath test

Psychiatric diagnoses have exploded, turning a once-slim manual into an 886-page guide listing 374 disorders. In pursuit of certainty, society often labels ordinary quirks or struggles as signs of illness. One man faked insanity to avoid prison, then became trapped by the very labels meant to define him. Attempts to spot or classify psychopaths reveal more about our hunger for simple answers than about human complexity itself.